18th Annual Wharton Investment Management Conference

Committee

Co-Chairs

Ryan G. Anderson

Co-Chair

Ryan previously served in the United States Navy as an F/A-18 fighter pilot. While in the Navy, he completed two combat deployments flying off of aircraft carriers supporting coalition ground forces in Afghanistan, deployed to the Middle East on a non-flying assignment with special operations forces, and finished his career as an F/A-18 instructor pilot. Prior to beginning at Wharton, Ryan passed the CFA Level I exam. Ryan spent his summer as an Equity Research Analyst Intern at Fidelity.

Ahsan Rahim, CFA

Co-Chair

Ahsan Rahim is a second year MBA student at Wharton double-majoring in Finance and Strategic Management. Prior to Wharton, Ahsan spent 4 years working at AllianceBernstein in New York City. He started in the Fixed Income group, where he worked in emerging markets fundamental credit research, quantitative research and global multi-sector portfolio management before moving to the firm’s asset allocation group. This past summer he interned at McKinsey & Company in the New York City office in the Strategy & Corporate Finance practice. Ahsan holds a bachelor’s degree in economics with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from Grinnell College. He is also a CFA charterholder. He enjoys foreign travel, trying out new foods & cuisines, playing soccer, following his beloved Arsenal, reading about behavioral economics, and investing.

Marketing

Kushal Amin

Marketing Coordinator

Kushal is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management. Most recently, Kushal worked in venture philanthropy at Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, and prior to that was a management consultant at Accenture Strategy in Chicago and San Francisco. Kushal graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Vivek Goyal

Marketing Coordinator

Vivek is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Finance, and Business Analytics. Vivek previously worked in venture capital at Nokia Growth Partners across their Europe, India and US offices, and in consulting with A.T. Kearney before. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.

Operations

Sam Mai

Operations Coordinator

Sam Mai is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Statistics and Finance. Most recently, Sam worked in business development at Two Sigma focused on emerging markets expansion. Prior to that, he worked in technology investment banking at Barclays. Sam graduated from University of California, Berkeley with degrees in Business and Economics.

Richard Mancco

Operations Coordinator

Profile coming soon.

Jock Payten

Operations Coordinator

Jock Payten is a first year MBA candidate majoring in Finance and Accounting. He previously worked at Ipreo, a financial technology services firm, where he supported corporate investor relations professionals target and manage their relationship with institutional investors using the BD Corporate database. Jock graduated from Fordham University with a B.S. in Finance. He is currently a CFA Exam, Level 1 Candidate.

Watue Sowaprux

Operations Coordinator

Watue is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Finance. Previously, her primary focus was on risk management of four credit trading desks at Citigroup. There, she modeled the bank's credit derivatives portfolio against stress testing objectives. Watue is currently a CFA Level II candidate and graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science in Operations Research and a minor in Economics..

Sponsorship

Jonathan Chan

Sponsorship Coordinator

Jonathan Chan is a first year MBA student at The Wharton School. Prior to Wharton, Jonathan worked as a private equity associate at Francisco Partners, a fund focused on investments in technology and technology-enabled services businesses. Prior to Francisco Partners, Jonathan worked as an investment banking analyst at Evercore Partners. Jonathan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Honors Business Administration from Western University’s Richard Ivey School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering Science in Civil Engineering from Western University.

Stephanie Ye Han

Sponsorship Coordinator

Stephanie Ye Han is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Finance. Prior to Wharton, she worked as an account manager for Blue Capital Global Reinsurance Fund Ltd. She also spent 2 years in advisory and audit covering reinsurance companies at PwC. Stephanie has Bachelor of Finance and Accounting degree and Master of Accounting degree from University of Waterloo. She is a CPA charterholder and CFA Level II candidate.

Albert Hu

Sponsorship Coordinator

Albert is a first-year MBA student at Wharton majoring in finance. Most recently, Albert was a Vice President at Silicon Valley Bank, where he structured and underwrote leveraged loans in support of private equity transactions in the software and tech-enabled services verticals. Prior to that, he worked as an Investment Banking Analyst in the leveraged finance group at Jefferies. Albert graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in economics.

Zhu Joy

Sponsorship Coordinator

Joy Zhu is a first year MBA candidate majoring in Finance. She previously worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where she analyzed and reported international economic and FOREX market trends to senior policymakers. Joy graduated magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with a dual degree in Economics and Political Science.

Yuanlu Li

Sponsorship Coordinator

Prior to Wharton, Yuan worked on seismic vessel on North Sea and land crew in Egypt of Operations & Business in Oil &Gas industry. She managed OEM, R&D and IT suppliers globally as part of her roles in New Product Development, price and contract negotiation, and ISO9001:2008 audits. She is currently a CFA Level II candidate.

Wesley Lim

Sponsorship Coordinator

Wesley is a first-year MBA student at Wharton majoring in finance. Prior to Wharton, Wesley worked for the Singapore Government covering public housing, charity regulation and national security. His job entailed pitching high-level ideas and implications of public policy to senior politicians and public officials. He passed CFA Level III.

Daniel Michel

Sponsorship Coordinator

Daniel Michel is a first year finance major at Wharton. Prior to Wharton, Daniel spent four years performing the statistical analysis related to antitrust litigation as a consultant with Berkeley Research Group. Daniel also spent much of 2016 working in a quantitative internal strategy role for Dolby Laboratories. Daniel holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of William & Mary. In his free time, he enjoys watching classic movies, reading, and following Chicago sports teams.

Panel Coordinators

Sam Bitetti

Equity Investing Panel Coordinator

Sam is a first year MBA student at Wharton. Prior to Wharton, Sam worked for five years in the US equity research department of T Rowe Price, where he spent three years as a Large Cap Growth generalist and two years as a consumer analyst. Sam also worked as a public equities investor at Flatley Management, a single-family office and foundation in Boston. Sam began his career at Thomas Weisel Partners after graduating from Bowdoin College in 2007.

Runyu (Michael) Ding

Global Investing Panel Coordinator

Michael Ding is a first year MBA student at Wharton majoring in Finance. Previously he worked at equity analyst at Ginkgo Capital for 4 years. Michael is a CFA Charterholder and graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics with a B.A. in Finance.

Alexandra McLaughlin

Credit Investing Panel Coordinator

Alexandra McLaughlin is a first-year MBA student at the Wharton School, majoring in Finance. Prior to Wharton, Alexandra worked as an investment associate at Alcentra, a sub-investment grade credit firm in New York, and she started as an investment banking analyst in M&A at HSBC. Alexandra graduated from Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service with a B.S.F.S. in International Politics and Latin American Studies.

Ravi Mulani

Credit Investing Panel Coordinator

Ravi previously worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group, and in Business Operations at LinkedIn. This past summer, he interned at Rangeley Capital, a value and special situations hedge fund. He graduated from Harvard College Magna Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics and Economics.

Julia Pei

Equity Investing Panel Coordinator

Julia Pei is a first year MBA student majoring in finance. Most recently, Julia was an associate at Equity Group Investments focused on public and private investing across various sectors. Prior to that, she worked at Credit Suisse investment banking in its Power & Renewables group. Julia graduated with honors from The University of Chicago with a degree in economics and a minor in statistics.

Stephen Zhang

Global Investing Panel Coordinator

Stephen Zhang is a first-year MBA student at the Wharton School, majoring in Finance and Business Analytics. Prior to Wharton, Stephen worked as a management consultant at Bain & Co. in Hong Kong, and he started as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. Stephen graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Economics and Astrophysics.